I\'m working with jqGrid 4.3.2 in an ASP.NET MVC 4 website, jQuery 1.7.2. There are several places in the application where jqGrid is used. My general setup right now is t
For anyone reading this in 2016, this functionality has now been incorporated into jqGrid. See https://github.com/tonytomov/jqGrid/issues/785. At the time of writing jqGrid 5.1 was out, so I expect this functionality to be available from version 5.2 onwards. Alternatively just obtain the most recent code from GitHub.
To use it simply set the following properties on your jqGrid:
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restoreAfterSelect: false,
saveAfterSelect: true,
...
There is no longer a need to implement your own solution.